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title | : | Indians of the Greater Southeast : Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory |
author | : | McEwan, Bonnie G. |
publisher | : | University Press of Florida |
isbn10 | asin | : |
print isbn13 | : | 9780813017785 |
ebook isbn13 | : | 9780813023076 |
language | : | English |
subject | Indians of North America--Southern States--History, Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities, Ethnohistory--Southern States, Archaeology and history--Southern States, Southern States--Antiquities. |
publication date | : | 2000 |
lcc | : | E78.S65I52 2000eb |
ddc | : | 975/.00497 |
subject | : | Indians of North America--Southern States--History, Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities, Ethnohistory--Southern States, Archaeology and history--Southern States, Southern States--Antiquities. |
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I NDIANS OF THE G REATER S OUTHEAST
Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology
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I NDIANS OF THE
G REATER S OUTHEAST
H ISTORICAL A RCHAELOGY AND E THNOHISTORY
EDITED BY
Bonnie G. McEwan
University Press of Florida
Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton
Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville Ft. Myers
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Copyright 2000 by The Society for Historical Archaeology
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Indians of the greater Southeast: historical archaeology and ethnohistory /
edited by Bonnie G. McEwan
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8130-1778-5 (c: alk. paper)
1. Indians of North AmericaSouthern StatesHistory. 2. Indians of
North AmericaSouthern StatesAntiquities. 3. EthnohistorySouthern
States. 4. Archaeology and historySouthern States. 5. Southern States
Antiquities. I. McEwan, Bonnie G. (Bonnie Gair), 1954.
E78.S65 152 2000
975.00497dc21 99-049534
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To William G. Haag,
for his enduring contributions to southeastern archaeology
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CONTENTS
List of Figures | viii |
List of Tables | x |
Acknowledgments | xi |
Introduction by Bonnie G. McEwan | xiii |
Editors Note | xvi |
1. The Timucua Indians of Northern Florida and Southern Georgia Jerald T. Milanich | |
2. The Guale Indians of the Lower Atlantic Coast: Change and Continuity Rebecca Saunders | |
3. The Apalachee Indians of Northwest Florida Bonnie G. McEwan | |
4. The Chickasaws Jay K. Johnson | |
5. The Caddos of the Trans-Mississippi South Ann M. Early | |
6. The Natchez of Southwest Mississippi Karl G. Lorenz | |
7. The Quapaw Indians of Arkansas, 16731803 George Sabo III | |
8. Cherokee Ethnohistory and Archaeology from 1540 to 1838 Gerald F. Schroedl | |
9. Upper Creek Archaeology Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith | |
10. The Lower Creeks: Origins and Early History John E. Worth | |
11. Archaeological Perspectives On Florida Seminole Ethnogenesis Brent R. Weisman | |
Contributors | |
Index | |
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FIGURES
Frontispiece. Location of southeastern cultural groups discussed in the text
1.1. Region of the Timucua Indians at the time of European contact | 2 |
1.2. Timucuan chiefdoms ca. 1565 | 4 |
1.3. Missions among the Timucua Indians prior to 1656 | 12 |
1.4. Timucua missions on the camino real following the 1656 rebellion | 13 |
2.1. Savannah and Irene phase sites | 29 |
2.2. Guale mission sites | 43 |
3.1. Apalachee Indians and their tribal neighbors | 58 |
3.2. Prehistoric, protohistoric, and mission-period Apalachee capitals and mission sites located to date | 59 |
4.1. Chickasaw settlement in the Black Prairie | 91 |
4.2. Map of the southeastern United States showing selected Indian groups and early eighteenth-century trade routes | 94 |
4.3. Large Prairie and Small Prairie Chickasaw site locations | 99 |
5.1. Map showing historic Caddo locations and selected archaeological sites | 124 |
5.2. Schematic view of a Caddo village | 130 |
6.1. Natchez occupation area | 144 |
6.2. Protohistoric Emerald phase site distribution in the Natchez Bluffs | 148 |
6.3. Historic Natchez phase site distribution in the Natchez Bluffs | 149 |
7.1. Quapaw locations ca. 1700 | 181 |
8.1. Eighteenth-century Cherokee settlement areas and principal towns | 205 |
8.2. Artists depiction of the Overhill Cherokee town of Chota ca. 1760 | 206 |
8.3. Cherokee Nation, 182038 | 207 |
8.4. Lieutenant Henry Timberlakes map of the Overhill Cherokee towns on the lower Little Tennessee River, 1762 | 211 |
8.5. Artists depiction of the Chota townhouse ca. 1760 | 215 |
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8.6. Artists reconstruction of winter-summer dwellings | 219 |
8.7. Dwellings observed by Louis-Philippe at Toqua in 1797 | 221 |
9.1. Locations of the four regional divisions of Upper Creek Talwas in the mid-eighteenth century | 243 |
9.2. The series of Abihka sites on the Coosa River occupied from the mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth century |
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